Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-10-12

iVCeptlOn IOOm 10 the PLATFORM. On
the first appearance of the president
loud cheers went up from the multi
tude, and rs he assembled the platform
the enthusiasm was intense. Mr..
Frank Gaienne, president of the Mer-
chants exchange, introduced Mayor
Francis, and declared that this was the
most suspicious day to st. Louis with
in her history. Mayor Francis then
welcomed the president to the city and
state, and after another explosion OF
cheers the president responded.
From the exchange the president and
his companions were escorted in their
carriages through the principal bust
ness streets Of the city, the ride lasting
about an hour. Everywhere along the
route masses of people awaited and
greeted the president. The police ar
rangements were excellent and there
was no disorder, the crowds manifest
ing their enthusiasm in cheers and
noise, and refrained from crowding
about or following the carriages.
The carriages reached the Lindell
hotel at , p. m, where rooms, includ-
ing series of large parlors, had been
secured for the president. An hour
was given for lunch and rest, and at 8
O'Clock, Mrs. Cleveland having rejoined
her husband, the doors of the reception
parlOrs were thrown open and the pub
lie were admitted to shake the hands of
the president and his wife. The recep
ton began promptly at and continued
until 6. Several hundred ladies and
gentlemen were already in waiting in
the upper lobby of the hotel when the
doors were opened, and as the orches-
ira struck up a march, the people
moved in rapidly and made their exit
by another door. The president and
Mrs. Cleveland received their visitors
standing in the middle of large par
lOr under chandelier. Mrs. Cleveland
was clad in blue surah silk, which had
figure of red rosebuds and green
leaves. 1t was medium decollette,
trimmed literally with lace, and had
full lace in the sleeves to the elbows
Several rows of coral beads adorned
her shapely neck, and a diamond bril-
liant glittered at her throat. A score
OF the leading society ladies of st.
Louis assisted her.
The president has become very ex-
pert in the discharge of his part of the
work, and manages to greatly facilitate
the passage of the line. If he ever gets
fatigued his appearance fails to give
evidence of the fact. Submitting as he
does good naturally, to the familiar,
| often bOisterous salutatiOns of many
who approach him, he takes the liberty,
sometimes, to give loiterer, with the
grasp of his hand, sturdy pull in the
direction he ought to move, and often
| with halt dozen words manages to
answer in kind the greetings of as
many callers.
Mrs. Cleveland stood to the left and a
little IN the rear of her husband, and
| during great part of the three hOuIs'
reception acknowledged the greetings of
her visitors with smile and n bow, but
without taking their hands. When the
doors were closed the crowd of dlsap-
pointed ones in waiting numbered
many thousands. Col. Lamont esti-
mated that 1900 persons took the hand
of the president that afternoon.
PROFESSIONS with brass bands cOntin-
ued to prominade in front of the hotel
until midnight and early Tuesday
morning, even before breakfast, the
procession again started on their
rounds.
At 9 a. IN. the president was met at
the hotel by a committee and escorted
to the court house, led by a troop of
mounted police. The programme for
two hours was the reception of the
Commercial Travellers association of
st. Louis, and such other citizens as
should desire to see HMM other
words, it was strictly a public recep-
ton. The rotunda of the court house
was handsomely decorated with ever
green's and bunting. Standing on the
step of a richly curtained pagoda, the
president took the hand of each man
as he passed. About five hundred
travelling men had returned to the city
for the occasion, and passed by in sing
lie file. Then came the citizens gener-
ally, and the handshaking continued
until 1890. The shakers had all sorts
of grips. and it was often necessary for
the president to twist his hand from
the hearty grasp. One old lady became
so enthusiastic that she attempted to
kiss the president.
The reception over, the president
hurried to his carriage through a side
entrance, and was driven to the excur-
sion boat, the City of Baton Rogue,
lying at the foot of Chestnut street. At
the same time, Mrs Cleveland left the
Lindell Hotel, and was aboard the boat
few minutes later than the president,
and the vessel steamed down the river
for trip to Jefferson Barracks.
The afternoon was uneventful. The
presidential party were escorted in car
riages from the boat to the fair grounds,
where they became the guests of the
Fair association and lunched with a
party of thirty or forty ladies and gen.
tlemen in the club house. Lunch over,
they vert to the grand stand and saw
some trotting. They returned to the
hotel for dinner.
In the evening the President and Mrs.
Cleveland witnessed the grand street
pageant of the Vieled Prophets, Illus
trating by twenty-five floats some of
the events of biblical history, begin
ming with the dawn of history, the ex-
pulsion of Lucifer, Egyptian captivity,
scenes of the exodus, the Philistines.
the Prophets, events of Daniel, Jonah.
and Josial''s life, war scenes, and end
ing with the lannon's Belshazzar feast.